
Episode 61: ECPR with Scott Weingart
Critical Care Scenarios
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The Importance of Field Cannulation in CPR
If you can do CPR for 60 minutes on somebody, it seems like it's better just to scoop them up and get them to a hospital than to send a team out to do it in the subway. So I think it all depends on the logistics of the system. If you have a patient who has viable low flow perfusion, meaning that they had good CPR, then if they have nothing else going on negative prognostically, then we're probably going to put them on pump at most places.
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